Hollywood Hunter

In the new week beginning May 22, countless investors have focused their attention on Washington.

The U.S. Congress officially opened its vote on the Capital Gains Tax Reform Act at noon on the day of East Coast time. The results came out, with 328 votes in favor and 106 votes against. An absolute majority passed.

The next day, the Senate voted.

69 votes in favor, 31 votes against, the same absolute majority.According to the provisions of the US Constitution, more than two-thirds of the bills voted in favor of the House of Representatives and Congress will automatically take effect even if they are rejected by the President. This shows the general trend of this bill.

The White House will certainly not veto the bill.

On May 24, Clinton officially signed the bill and held a press conference at the White House to declare the new capital gains tax bill take effect.The new bill abolished the 28% fixed capital gains tax rate established during the Reagan tax reform, and adopted a two-level tax rate mechanism. Securities investors held stocks, bonds and other assets for more than 12 months, and the capital gains tax rate was reduced to 15%. The holding period is shorter than 12 months, and the capital gains tax rate is increased to 30%.

In his speech at the press conference, Mr. President said that the new capital gains tax rules will minimize the short-term speculation in the capital market, and at the same time increase the vitality of the capital market through tax relief for benign long-term investors and can attract more overseas. Capital enters the US capital market and promotes the federal economic development.

The U.S. stock market has long since broken away from the retail era. Even though the wave of new technology in recent years has led to a substantial increase in individual investors, the overall U.S. stock market trading volume at this stage is only 17% from retail investors, and the remaining 83% of the trading volume comes from domestic And countless institutional investors overseas.

Because it has little relationship with the general public, at least not directly, under the quiet suppression of many forces, except for some imaginable complaints on the Internet platform and a small amount of criticism in various media, this time the capital gains tax reform has basically no Caused too many waves.

Of course there is no shortage of people trying to direct the spearhead to the Westeros system.The large number of technology stocks held by Simon, according to various opinions, are now at a high bubble level. Westeros has held these stocks for more than a year. If a large amount of cash is used, 15% In the calculation of the capital gains tax rate, it is difficult to estimate the tax savings.

But similar voices are even weaker than public criticism of capital gains tax reform.

After the Hearst family collapsed under the sniping of the Westeros system last year, no media dare to easily provoke a tough young super tycoon.

For the relevant comments, the Westeros family did not respond at all.

However, the public who pays a little attention to entertainment information can feel that these days, Daenerys Entertainment’s summer season this year’s two heavyweight films "Jurassic Park 2" and "Apollo 13" are all promulgated. A huge increase, overwhelming various types of advertisements, almost cover up the glory of all other films in this summer.

nipple.

Still a pacifier.

Then, on May 26, the last trading day of the week, Nokia officially listed on the NASDAQ exchange.

Since its listing in August 1993, Nokia’s stocks traded on the London Stock Exchange have undergone two stock splits, one for one split and one for three splits. At this stage, it is also different from the market strategy of technology companies pursuing high stock prices. It is generally believed that the single stock price is low to attract investors to buy, coupled with some other options cashing and small mergers and acquisitions, etc. equity changes, Nokia's current total share capital has reached 1.169 billion shares.

This time listing on the Nasdaq market, Nokia adopted an additional issuance method, issuing 120 million new shares, because the number of subscriptions reached 6 times the size of the issuance, triggering the pre-determined over-allotment option and issuing an additional 18 million shares A total of 138 million new shares were issued, with an issue price of $27.5 and a financing scale of $3.795 billion.

Simon returned to Los Angeles after busy with the TV department last Friday. This week, he came to the East Coast again on Thursday to build momentum for Nokia's listing platform on the Nasdaq market.

This listing is not much different from the corporate IPO process. If the difference is that the issue price of these new shares is based on the recent trading price of the London stock market, and the stocks of the two places can be exchanged, so it does not surprise investors too much. Possible.

However, as a Westeros concept stock that returned to the Nasdaq market from overseas, the market still gave a fairly optimistic forecast before this listing. It is generally estimated that Nokia’s rise on the first day of listing in North America can reach about 5% .

Facts have proved that this data still seriously underestimates the strong attraction of Westeros concept stocks to the market.

Moreover, the capital gains tax reform bill just passed this week has largely stimulated the vitality of the capital market.

Around ten o'clock in the morning, Nokia's stock officially began trading, and the opening price directly rushed to more than $29, easily breaking the expectations of many industry analysts' first-day rise of 5%.

The opening was positive, which in turn attracted more capital to buy this stock.

When the time came to four o'clock in the afternoon, the Nasdaq stock market closed, and Nokia's stock price rose by 11.8% in one day, closing the market value of 30.75 US dollars.According to the total share capital of Nokia’s 1.307 billion shares after the issuance, the total market value of the mobile communications equipment giant has reached US$40.1 billion.

In mature capital markets such as Europe and the United States, because of the interchangeability, the stock prices of companies listed in the two places will not differ much.

Because of the time difference, the London stock market has closed this week, and the market will be opened again until next week. The closing market value is estimated to be 24.6 billion pounds, which is equivalent to 37.7 billion US dollars.However, as long as there is no super accident at the level of the Black Swan, Nokia's stock price on the London Stock Exchange will inevitably rise sharply after opening next Monday, and will eventually remain consistent with North America after the exchange rate conversion.

After the issuance was completed, Westeros' shareholding in Nokia was reduced to 67.2%.

According to the closing price on the first day of the Nasdaq transaction, it is just a Nokia that has contributed $26.9 billion to Simon’s wealth.

According to Nokia's market performance on the first day, some media people who have followed Simon's personal wealth on the Internet platform have readjusted Simon's personal net worth. Among them, the figures given by the editor-in-chief of Fortune magazine have been widely reproduced on platforms such as Facebook.

$620 billion!

This is another new high figure given by authoritative financial sources since the media statistics for Simon’s personal net worth of more than US$500 billion for the first time at the beginning of the year, and it is fully calculated with reference to the current stock prices of listed companies in the Westeros system.

Among them, Cisco, which has exceeded the 150 billion US dollar mark in January at the beginning of the year, closed on May 26. The market value of that day has reached 192.6 billion US dollars. The overall increase in more than four months has been close to 30%, which is the first in the US stock market. 2000 Enterprises with a market value of 100 million US dollars are only one step away.

Outside of Cisco, the shares of other Westeros core companies have also continuously reached new highs.

For the upcoming Igreat, the editor-in-chief of Fortune magazine still has a fairly conservative $100 billion valuation.

Even so, adding up, Simon Westero's current net worth has reached 620 billion US dollars, not to mention the US 400 rich list, even if it is the global wealth list, other rich people on the list, most of the net worth is even Simon The fraction of the 620 billion US dollars of huge wealth is not reached.

numbness.

It can only be completely numb.

Whether it is 500 billion US dollars or 620 billion US dollars, it has been out of the thinking category of most Americans whose mathematics is not very good.

The complaint of a popular blogger on Facebook may be regarded as the actual feelings of many people who pay attention to this matter: "Let Simon Westero float in the sky like God, we live our lives."

There are also people who fan the flames through online platforms.

We should start a revolution against Simon Westeros, he should not have so much.

Barabara.

Then, some users with fierce rhetoric have been banned because of the spread of hate speech.

And it is a comprehensive ban.

Realizing that a large user base is the foundation of its own development, Igrid has increasingly tightened the protection of user accounts in recent years. Simon also often pays close attention to this matter. The security employed by Igrid’s network security department The team of experts is even stronger than the cybersecurity teams of most sensitive government departments.

At the same time, with the continuous expansion of the business scope of Igret, the gold content of Igret accounts is also getting higher and higher, because a common account often opens up e-mail, payment tools, instant messaging, social networking sites, online There are a series of services such as shopping malls, and there are many authorized logins outside the station.Therefore, many users simply cannot bear the consequences of account ban.

The news spread that he wanted to defeat Simon Westero's argument.

Neither the capital gains tax reform nor Nokia's listing in North America has affected the pace of the North American summer program.

After the release of three new films last week, the North American film market began to show a small upsurge.

A box office week from May 19 to May 25.

Fox Films produced the action blockbuster "Tiger Gallbladder 3" starring Bruce Willis, which opened at the box office for US$29.88 million in the first week of the first week, making it the top box office champion of the week.

However, compared with the production budget of US$90 million and the investment of US$40 million, this result is far from Fox's expectations.

It was less than ten million dollars.

The industry has generally predicted that the first week's box office score of "Tiger gallbladder 3" should reach between 40 million and 50 million US dollars. This kind of box office score may break the record in the 1980s. When the North American movie market enters the first week The era of saturation full-scale distribution that has exceeded the limit of 100 million. For a blockbuster such as "Tiger gallbladder 3", the first week reached less than 40 million US dollars, not even a pass.

Considering that "Jurassic Park 2" is about to be released on June 2, "Tiger Galloway 3" will receive US$29.88 million in the first week. It is estimated that the total box office in North America may be only about US$70 million. The most important local box office can only be recovered. With a fraction of the US$130 million investment, the overseas prospects are even more unpredictable. It is important to know that the "Jurassic Park" series is more powerful overseas than North America.

Not only is the North American film market limited in volume, it is also the case globally.

Therefore, it is inevitable that this will change.

DreamWorks' "Ghost Horse Elf" is second only to "Tiger gallbladder 3", the first week of $ 25.71 million, although slightly lower than "tiger gallbladder 3", but considering the film's family property, local The box office should also be around $70 million.Fortunately, the production cost of "Ghost Horse Elf" is only 50 million US dollars, which is also the local box office of 70 million US dollars. DreamWorks and Paramount are very likely to recover costs and achieve profitability through global distribution.

However, because of the gap between the two sides in the distribution of dates, Spielberg is absolutely not satisfied with the box office performance of "Ghost Horse Elf".

In another new film last week, "Forget the Love of Paris", the romantic love film directed and directed by Billy Christo had a box office of only 6.23 million US dollars in the first week. It was expected to be lukewarm and the box office score was not as good as the release. 7 weeks of "Fighting Stars 3".Affected by several new movies, the box office of Week 7 of the Fight Against Multi-Star 3 dropped by 35%, collecting another 7.19 million US dollars, accumulating a total of 116.72 million US dollars at the box office.

160 million in seven weeks. Considering that "Jurassic Park 3" will soon come, the local box office of "Retro Fighting Multi-Star 3" is likely to stop between 170 million and 180 million. Unfortunately, it is impossible to break through the pre-predicted local 2 One hundred million U.S. dollars.

Of course, the production cost of 40 million US dollars, only the North American native in exchange for more than 170 million US dollars at the box office, "Rebel Star 3" is still one of the most successful films in 1995.

In addition, "The Man Comes From the Earth", screenplay by Simon himself, just continued to make a total of 2.25 million US dollars on 431 screens in North America in the past week, with a cumulative box office of 231.36 million US dollars, and it is expected to continue to shrink the box office around 5 million US dollars Space, also failed to achieve the original goal of 250 million US dollars.

Overall, the success of "This Man From Earth" and "Rebel Stars 3" exceeded Daenerys Entertainment's expectations. However, it was precisely because the two films were too successful, but in the first half of the year, the market capacity was relatively limited. The internal competition formed during the period, resulting in a certain reduction in the respective box office compared to expectations.

In the week just passed, between Tiger Tiger 3 and Ghost Horse Elf, this is basically the case.

On May 26th, Nokia launched a new box office week on the NASDAQ listing day. There are still two new films in the North American theater. The Warner Brothers produced a self-directed "Corridor" by Clint Eastwood. The Bridge of Dreams, and a Sony sci-fi film "Special Agent" starring Keanu Reeves.

Neither film is considered heavy, and it was clearly not valued by the studio one week before "Jurassic Park 2".

However, for Simon, "The Covered Bridge" is famous.

As an early Hollywood romance film that flowed into China, this movie with a very poetic translation of the title, whether it is the plot or the controversial values, makes people relish.

The "Special Agent" starring Keanu Reeves tells a sci-fi story that will happen in the future. Through the brain hole of the modified biochemical memory and transmission of data, it is very similar to Keanu's later "Matrix". It’s just that “Special Agent” itself has no highlights. The production cost of the film is only 26 million US dollars. It was also used as a cannon fodder by Sony before “Jurassic Park 2”. It will be too different.

Speaking of that, after expelling Peter Cooper and John Peters to take full control of Columbia Pictures, Sony has released a large number of films in the past two years, which can be described as repeated defeats and repeated defeats.

Every time it fails, there are rumors in the circle that Sony intends to withdraw from Hollywood.

Unfortunately, it hasn't come true for the time being.After the opening of a new box office week, "Jurassic Park 2" is getting closer.

Like the super blockbuster in the past, this time, Daenerys Entertainment also prepared a grand premiere for "Jurassic Park 2", which is scheduled for May 31, two days before the film's release.